Willem Drost (1633-1659)

Willem Drost (1633-1659)

Author: Jonathan Bikker

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0300105819

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"The book draws on extensive research to revise what has been known about Drost's life, his stylistically diverse oeuvre, and his influences. The artist's training and his relationship to Rembrandt and other artists in the Rembrandt circle are examined, as is his Venetian period and the relation of his style to that of German-born painter Johann Carl Loth. Drost emerges as one of Rembrandt's most talented imitators and, despite his very short career, an artist with a variety of faces."--BOOK JACKET.


Cultivating Victorians

Cultivating Victorians

Author: David Wayne Thomas

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2004-01-21

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0812237544

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"This volume makes a bold and highly sophisticated contribution to Victorian cultural studies as it explores the historical interrelations between Victorian aestheticism and liberalism. . . . Extremely ambitious."--


A Private Passion

A Private Passion

Author: Stephan Wolohojian

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1588390764

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"For the Winthrop collection's international debut exhibition, curators at the Fogg Art Museum of the Harvard University Art Museums, headed by Stephan Wolohojian, organized the selection and invited more than sixty specialists to write on artworks in their particular area of expertise. Works include such highlights in their creator's oeuvre as Jacques-Louis David's sketchbooks for The Coronation of Napoleon and the Crowning of Josephine, Theodore Gericault's Mutiny on the Raft of the Medusa, Vincent van Gogh's The Blue Cart, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's Odalisque with the Slave, William Blake's illustrations for the Divine Comedy, Dante Gabriel Rosetti's Blessed Damozel, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler's Nocturne in Blue and Silver. In addition, an essay by Wolohojian provides a fascinating and informative description of Winthrop and the growth of his collection."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914

Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914

Author: David Adelman

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1040052169

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This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914. Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich and upwardly mobile Victorians: William Coningham (1815–84), Henry Hill (1813–82), Henry Willett (1823–1905) and Harriet Trist (1816–96) and her husband John Hamilton Trist (1812–91). The book examines the relationship between the wealth of these would-be members of the Brighton bourgeoisie and the social and political meanings of their art collections paid for out of fortunes made from sugar, tailoring, beer and wine. It explores their luxury lifestyles and civic activities including the making of Brighton museum and art gallery, which reflected a paradoxical mix of patrician and liberal views, of aristocratic aspiration and radical rhetoric. It also highlights the centrality of the London art world to their collecting facilitated by the opening of the London to Brighton railway line in 1841. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies and British history.


Writing the Pre-Raphaelites

Writing the Pre-Raphaelites

Author: Tim Barringer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1351536257

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This vibrant collection of essays claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Throughout the twentieth century, Modernist taste failed to acknowledge the achievement of oppositional groupings such as the Pre-Raphaelites. The essays collected here, however, reveal that the British group anticipated later avant-gardes by using the written word to configure for itself a radical artistic identity. Public and critics alike were scandalized by the radicalism of Pre-Raphaelite painting, its unflinching portrayal of historical figures and of contemporary life, and its irreverent attitude to artistic convention. Pre-Raphaelitism's innovations were not confined to style: new forms of artistic identity and behaviour were explored. As the contributors interrogate the texts through which Pre-Raphaelitism was constructed, they demonstrate that the movement's wide influence as a cultural phenomenon derived from the interplay between exhibited works and critical discourse. Applying a range of sophisticated methodologies from the fields of literary studies, art history, and cultural studies, these interdisciplinary essays uncover the neglected role of texts in the success of the Pre-Raphaelite rebellion and argue in favor of a new centrality for this movement in the history of nineteenth-century European culture.


After the Pre-Raphaelites

After the Pre-Raphaelites

Author: Elizabeth Prettejohn

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780719054068

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What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centred on literary figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburn, Walter Peter and Oscar Wilde. This volume overviews parallel trends in the visual arts, including the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeil Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon and Albert Moore among others.


The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts

The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts

Author: Barbara Bryant

Publisher: Australian Geographic

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Published to accompany a major exhibition organized by the Tate Gallery, London, this is the first publication to explore the impact of British art on the international symbolist movement